Enhancing user access to european digital heritage

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EuropeanaConnect
Enhancing User Access to European Digital Heritage

Cultural Heritage Online 2009
Florence, 16 December 2009

Max Kaiser, Austrian National Library
max.kaiser@onb.ac.at, www.onb.ac.at


What is EuropeanaConnect ?

• “Best Practice Network”
• Co-funded by EC in the eContentplus programme
• Duration May 2009 – October 2011 (= 2,5 years)
• 30 project partners from 14 countries
• Coordinated by Austrian National Library
• ~ 900 Person Months total labour effort
• Total budget: 5.625.000 Euro
• 80 % EU funding: 4.500.000 Euro

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Cultural Heritage Online 2009, Florence, 16 Dec. 2009


Building Europeana

• EuropeanaConnect: one of the two core projects that will build the
fully operational Europeana in the coming two years
• Sister project of “Europeana v1.0” (coordinated by the EDL
Foundation)
• Both projects will build the core components and services for
Europeana
• Europeana v1.0:
• Backend processes and full scale business development
• EuropeanaConnect:
• Key technical components and audio content

EuropeanaConnect


Europeana Group
Biodiversity Heritage
Libraries Europe
Presto
Prime Judaica Europeana Arrow
Europeana Local

Europeana v.1.0
Musical
Instruments European
Museums Online Europeana Film
Gateway

Europeana
Travel EuropeanaConnect
EUScreen

APEnet Athena

EuropeanaConnect The European Library


EuropeanaConnect
www.group.europeana.eu


Project Partners …

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Project Partner Structure

• EDL – European Digital Library • 10 Universities and Academies of
Foundation, The Hague Sciences:
• Humboldt University Berlin
• 8 Libraries: • University of Vienna
• Austrian National Library • Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon
(Coordinator) • Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
• Royal Library of Denmark • National Technical University of
• National Library of Luxembourg Athens
• National Library of the Netherlands • University of Amsterdam
• Innsbruck University Library • University of Padua
• State- and University Library • Polish Academy of Sciences
Göttingen • Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• German National Library • Slovenian Academy of Sciences
• National Library of Portugal

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Project Partner Structure

• 7 Research Institutes: • 1 Broadcast Company:
• RBB – Rundfunk Berlin-
• Austrian Research Centers, Vienna Brandenburg
• XEROX European Research
Center, Grenoble
• 1 Publishing House:
• CELI S.R.L., Torino
• Amsterdam University Press
• Kennisland / Knowledgeland,
Amsterdam
• University College London
• 1 Institute for Literature:
Consultants (UCLC) • Institute of Lithuanian Literature
and Folklore, Vilnius
• OFFIS e.V. (Oldenburg Research
and Development Institute for
Information Technology Tools and • 1 Consultant Company:
Systems) • Eremo s.r.l., Cupramontana
• Angewandte Informationstechnik
Forschungsgesellschaft, Graz (AIT)

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What will EuropeanaConnect build?

EuropeanaConnect


Add the music dimension
to Europeana

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New audio content for Europeana

• Today: there’s not much music in Europeana…
• 77% Images
• 20% Text
• 2,5% Video
• 0,5% Audio
• EuropeanaConnect will add the music dimension to
Europeana
• Five audio archives are consortium members
• Continuous approach to involvement of new audio archives
for the entire duration of the project

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New audio content for Europeana

• Up to 150 archives will participate as content providers
• Around 40.000 music tracks at project start
• Estimated 150.000 – 200.000 music tracks by project end
• Europeana Audio Aggregation Platform (AAP)
• Harvesting, analysing and storing audio metadata
• Data provision for Europeana using OAI-PMH
• How to start?
• Audio Starter Kit on EuropeanaConnect Website
http://www.europeanaconnect.eu/results-and-resources.php
• Describes process of providing audio content to Europeana
via the AAP

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What do users really want?

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User Orientation – Why, How?

• Why:
• We want Europeana to be used widely by people
• We (= project team members of the Europeana group)
are not necessarily identical with these ”people”

• How:
• Personas
• Log file analysis
• Surveys
• User Tests

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What are „Personas“?

• Archetypical representations of our users
• Personas are based on:
• Existing research: search behaviour, user studies, interaction design
• Existing personas from domain of archives, museums and libraries
• A personas workshop with participants from several countries
• One Persona can have several User Scenarios
• Will maintain their own personality and approach regardless of scenario
• One user scenario can be applied to different Personas

• Personas are very useful in order to remember key user characteristics
Will guide Europeana development process!

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Personas matrix

Effortless
Search

PROFILE 5 PROFILE 3
”Sven” ”Jukka”
PROFILE 4
PROFILE 6 ”Maria”
”William”
Navigational Explorative
behaviour behaviour
PROFILE 9
”Julia”
Europeana Personas Catalogue will be available on the
EuropeanaConnectPROFILE 7
PROFILE 2 website soon
”Sarah” ”Peter”

Difficult Search

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Log File Analysis and User Testing

• Log File Analysis for Europeana to
evaluate the use of the services
• How do users really navigate and
search in Europeana?
• Method: Deep log analysis
• First analysis to be delivered in
December
• User Testing of Europeana services
with different user communities
• Europeana Registry of Test Users
• Selection of methods for user testing

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Building the Semantic Layer

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Build the Europeana Semantic Layer

• Make resources in Europeana accessible not only via
metadata records but also as linked data
• Organise Europeana data space as network of interlinked
resources for object discovery and further use
• Semantic Layer will allow to
• Build innovative interfaces for Europeana
• Perform automatic processing of semantically enriched and
linked data
• Prerequisite for integration of and with other semantically
aware WWW services

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What will be linked?

• Object Descriptions
• Metadata
• Object Abstractions
• E.g. Thumbnails, TOCs
• Existing Structured Resources
• Vocabularies etc.
• Linked Data in the WWW
• E.g. DBpedia, VIAF, LCSH

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What new services can be created?

• Search via browsing
• Faceted browsing
• Visualised navigation
• Browse the network of interrelated resources
• List search results according to relevance
• List results in a timeline or in a map
• Etc.

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What will EuropeanaConnect do?

• Build a repository of harvested semantic resources
• Vocabularies, classification schemes …
• Convert data into semantic representations
• Semantic processing will mostly use SKOS
• Semantically enrich Europeana content by mapping it to
these semantic representations
• E.g. Link “Amsterdam” to an URI of Geo-Vocabulary

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Multilingual Access

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Multilingual Access to Europeana

• Multilingual aspects are at the heart of making Europeana
content accessible for users across all European countries
• Europeana metadata descriptions are generally not
multilingual

• EuropeanaConnect:
• Provide multilingual access capabilities for Europeana
• Users will be able to find relevant content in Europeana
even if its not described in their native / preferred
language

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What will EuropeanaConnect do?

• Build Europeana Repository of Language Resources for
translation and mapping
• Tools for multilingual mapping of controlled vocabularies
• Suite of translation services for querying and browsing
• Supported set of languages:
• Start with English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
• Expand with Dutch, Hungarian, Portuguese, Polish, Swedish

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New Access Channels to Europeana


Spatio-temporal User Interface

• Make use of time-related and geographical metadata of the
Europeana Semantic Layer
• Provide a new visual access channel for Europeana
• Combination of spatial and temporal metadata for visualisation
• Interactive and generic map of geo-related tagged events, places
and characters in Europe – combined with timeline

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Mock-up of the Spatio-temporal User Interface

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Mobile Access Channel to Europeana

• Generic Mobile Client, adapting to the user‘s mobile device:
• Different capabilities of mobile devices:
• Hardware Level
– Display resolution and size
– Sensors (GPS, camera, …)
• Software Level
– Operating System (Symbian, iPhone OS, Android, …)
– Mobile Browser (Opera, …)
– Support for JavaScript / AJAX
• Location-aware search

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Europeana Mobile: System architecture

Mobile Web Browsers
Heterogeneous devices and browsers
(Opera, Safari, …)

Adaptive Web Client
Dynamically adapts to capabilities of
Basic Services mobile devices Advanced Services
Device dependent searching Location aware searching
Based on JAVA / Spring-MVC, running in
Jetty / Tomcat on eConnect server

Semantic
Layer

Europeana
Database
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Europeana Mobile Prototype: Start Screen

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Europeana Mobile Prototype: Search Results

Mixed mode Lightweight mode Gallery Mode
Thumbnails and Text Text only Thumbnails only

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Prototype: Location-aware Searching / Details

Dynamic Map Static Map Details
JavaScript enabled Plain HTML Detailed Information

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Annotation Service

• Allows users to make their own contribution to Europeana
content
• Annotation of multimedia resources
• Comments, discussion, linking
• Add value to existing content
• Enhance Europeana searchability through user-provided
metadata
• Support establishment of social networks around Europeana

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Image Annotations

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Video Annotations

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eBooks-on-Demand

• Integration of eBooks on Demand (EOD) Service into
Europeana
• Existing digitisation-on-demand service
• http://www.books2ebooks.eu/
• Allow for an automatic and generic transfer of eBooks
created within EOD to Europeana
• Develop Print-on-Demand demonstrator for Europeana

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Bringing metadata into Europeana
Archives

Museums

Libraries

? Audio Archives

Film Archives

Broadcast
Archives

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Max Kaiser, Austrian National Library others …


Bringing metadata into Europeana
Archives
APEnet
Museums

Athena
Libraries

The European
Library
Audio Archives
Europeana
Connect
Film Archives
EFG

Broadcast
Archives
EUScreen
EuropeanaConnect
OAI-PMH Management
Max Kaiser, Austrian National Library others …
Infrastructure


Key infrastructure components

• Europeana OAI-PMH Management Infrastructure
• Europeana will harvest metadata from a large number of OAI data providers
• Implementation of a service for management of OAI data providers and for
administration of harvested metadata records

• Europeana Metadata Registry
• Registration and management of metadata terms and schemas created by
various communities in multiple contexts

• Europeana Service Registry
• Will manage service descriptions of Web Services and support integration of
external services into Europeana (mashups)

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… and more infrastructure components …

• Europeana Persistent Identifier Resolution Service
• Meta-Service: forward PI resolution requests to resolution services of national
libraries and to resolvers for other identifier networks

• Integration of Geographical Information Services
• Geoparser and Gazetteer: will enrich Europeana metadata and content with
explicit geographical metadata and references

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And now for the legal stuff…


Europeana Licensing Framework

• EuropeanaConnect will build the Europeana Licensing Framework
• Set of interoperable licenses that will cover rights information for
content in Europeana and accessible from Europeana
• EuropeanaConnect will
• Create and validate a first functional license to govern the
Europeana Rhine release
• Create the draft Europeana Licensing Framework and validate it
• Build tools for implementation of the Framework
• Test and validate tools and proof of concept

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More information?
Visit www.europeanaconnect.eu


Image Credits…
• Slide “What will EuropeanaConnect build?”:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/leeds/content/image_galleries/image_gallery_quarry_hill_gallery.shtml?5
• Slide “Logfile Analysis and User Testing”:
http://www.openpr.de/images/articles/b/2/b23be7b165a6cf0e415d2794eb0df18c_g.jpg
• Slide “What do users really want?”:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationallibrarynz_commons/3326203787/
• Slide “What will be Linked?”:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dcdead/3573096322/in/set-72157604036600567
• Slide “Multilingual Access”:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e1/Brueghel-tower-of-babel.jpg
• Slide “User Annotations”:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cobra/5465955/
• Slide “And now for the legal stuff”:
http://www.nps.gov/brvb/historyculture/justices.htm
• Slide “Thank You”:
http://blogs.voices.com/voxdaily/thank-you-blackboard.jpg
• Slides “Project Partners” and “Back-Office Components”:
Picture Archive of the Austrian National Library, http://www.bildarchivaustria.at
• Slide “Books-on-Demand”:
Austrian National Library, http://www.onb.ac.at
• Slides “Building the Semantic Layer” and “New Access Channels to Europeana”:
Max Kaiser
• All other slides:
EuropeanaConnect Project, http://www.europeanaconnect.eu

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